Josh Nathan-Kazis is a staff writer for the Forward. He covers charities and politics, and writes investigations and longform.
He tried to become a Spanish citizen, tracked down family secrets in backwoods Maine and dug through $26 billion of charity data.
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Jimmy Cohen was a legend to the 47 Jewish teenagers who rode a big tour bus across the United States together in the summer of 1997. The bus trip, officially Bus B of USY on Wheels, Conservative Judaism’s official teen tour, was a six-week-long excuse for the 16-year-olds to hang out, make friends, make out,…
The son of Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg recounted his memory of helping his father photocopy the famous documents when he was just 13 years old in an article published Monday in The New York Times. Robert Ellsberg, now 62, told the Times that his father had asked him for help while they were out…
Anti-Defamation League chief Jonathan Greenblatt called on former president Barack Obama to again denounce Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, following the release of a photo taken of the two of them together over a decade ago. Obama denounced Farrakhan in 2008, when the anti-Semitic leader endorsed Obama’s presidential run. “Over his career,…
A bill to put the phrase “In God We Trust” in a “conspicuous place” in every public school in Florida is moving through the state legislature, Religion News Service reported. The phrase is the official motto of the United States and the state of Florida. It appears on the Florida state flag, which already flies…
A photographer has printed for the first time a photograph he took in 2005 of then-Senator Barack Obama with Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, Talking Points Memo reported. Askia Muhammad, the photographer, said that he took the photo at a meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus in 2005, but was contacted…
A little more than a year ago, a young rabbi revealed to colleagues that he had discovered that the Conservative movement never officially adopted one of its signature rules: the ban on rabbis blessing intermarriages. Conservative rabbis are also forbidden from even attending intermarriages on pain of expulsion from the movement, and the likely job…
“Alt-right” congressional candidate Paul Nehlen went on an anti-Semitic Twitter rant on Monday in response to a negative news report, tweeting images of media figures with Jewish stars next to their heads. Nehlen later deleted the tweets. Based on the screenshots posted by other Twitter users, it appears that Nehlen issued a series of tweets…
A South African musician whose face was used in the logo of the Zioness Movement, a Zionist-feminist grassroots group, said on Twitter on Monday that she had nothing to do with the movement. I am in no way affiliated with the Zioness movement. At all. https://t.co/2lcmvps4e7 — DOPESAINTJUDE (@DopeSaintJude) January 22, 2018 “I’m just a…
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